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  • The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists

    The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists Evolution: This View of Life 2012-02-24 David Sloan Wilson, Host and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology State University of New York, Binghamton Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research (author of The Race Myth: Why We…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • Against racial medicine

    Against racial medicine Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 481-493 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020189 Joseph L. Graves Jr., Dean of University Studies; Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro Michael R. Rose, Director of the University of California Network for Experimental Research on…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

    According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.

  • The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America

    The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Plume an imprint of Penguin June 2005 320 pages 5.35 x 7.99in Paperback ISBN: 9780452286580 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph…

  • Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research

    Biological v. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research The Review of Black Political Economy Volume 37, Number 1 (2010) pages 43-60 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Misconceptions concerning the concordance…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Our Problems with Race: Addressing Biological Versus Social Definitions

    Our Problems with Race: Addressing Biological Versus Social Definitions Appalachian State University Blue Ridge Ballroom PSU Wednesday, 2009-10-28 19:00 EDT (Local Time)                                    Joseph L. Graves, Jr, Dean of University Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University What does evolution tell us about race and what are we taught to…